Democracy American-style

It was many months ago that I first announced that Romney would be the Republican nominee. Who could have figured? While I could have and I did, even though I left it with the caveat that that they might stick Chris Christie in there if every Republican voter in America found Romney too repubugnant to vote for thus ensuring that Americans would be given no choice. In this case the future Obama-Romney works out even better as they had so many similar positions before Romney had to start appealing to the crazy wing of his party. Both even supported the same health care bill, though Romney now has amnesia about it now.

The choice was already noted here: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2011/07/who-represents-you-ie-at-least-we-get.html
or when T-Paw made way for Romney before even a vote was cast: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2011/08/so-long-t-paw-we-never-knew-ya.html

The way democracy is played in the United States is you need two nearly identical candidates feeding from the same corporate trough you can expect an "independent" media to tell you how radically different they are. That was why the last time we wound up voting for Obama and got "sameness we can believe in (more undeclared wars, illegal spying,  indefinite renditions etc. etc.)." It turned out the adults in the room realized that we didn't really believe in that change thing. We only thought we did. Someone had to come forward and make the decision for us.

So why on earth were we treated to that Republican freak show. Maybe the nominee will be Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Gingrich, even Santorum had his fifteen minutes of fame. Only Ron Paul was subjected to the media black out as he's dangerous because he might believe in some of the crazy stuff he espouses. While the media has to find something to fill up its blank pages or occupy the blank computer screen with something and did you really didn't expect them to fill it with news. Covering news is hard.

Backlash against the crazies getting too close: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2011/07/migraine-headachegate.html
Who they work for: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2011/07/who-they-work-for.html


I think Michael Moore was the first person I heard point out the extreme similarities of the parties during the Bush and Gore debates. During that time he noted how the candidates agreed with each other thirty-two times.

Article is here: http://michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-letter/george-gore-meet-al-bush

Some subjects get endless verbiage, as both sides appear to fall over themselves to please their backers, and others are barely get mentioned until they've largely been relegated to non-issues. Fortunately human intelligence does play a role in the decisions made and it would be hard for me to imagine Al Gore would have been stupid enough to fight several wars on a credit card.

Then there's the computer tallies which tabulates the vote, which last I heard can be hacked into from long distance, in case the "silly citizens" can't even get their marching orders straight and not vote for who their told to.

Silly Wabbit. Democracy requires real choice.

So if you're in Iowa or New Hampshire. Go out. Have some fun. Enjoy pulling the levers. Maybe stop at a bread sticks on your way home. Then maybe you can watch Dancing with the Stars or American Idol so you can participate in the last vestiges of democracy left in this country. Then you can enjoy the next four years of wars around the globe, flushing the constitution down the toilet, watching the heavily armed police force beat the hell out of unarmed protesters all being done in the name of preserving the constitution and teaching the rest of the world about democracy.

Just pathetic